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SHIRT COLLAR.

Patented Dec. 31, 1895.

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SHIRT COLLAR. No. 552,429. Patented Dec. 31, 1895.

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SAMUEL A. FOREST, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

SHIRT-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,429, dated December 31, 1895.

Application filed September 21, 1895. Serial No. 563,163. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. FOREST, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Collars of Neglig and Flannel Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shirt collars, as hereinafter shown and described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the collar and a portion of the body of a neglig or flannel shirt, illustrating the manner of applying my invention to a shirt made with a band, and Fig. 2 is a similar View of the invention applied to a shirt without a band. Fig. 3 is a rear View of the part shown in Fig. 1, with the collar distended and turned up. Fig. 4 is aview of one of the stiffeningpieces removed. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and Sare views of the different pieces composing the collar of a shirt without a band, as shown in Fig. 2, and Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 are views of the different pieces composing the collar of a shirt with a band, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

This invention is applicable to neglig, flannel, and other similar shirts; and in the drawings, A represents the body portion of the shirt.

The collar is formed of the main front layer or ply B, and the back layer or ply 13 the latter forming the back or inside of the collar when folded down, as shown in Figs. 1 and The outer edges (1, and the ends a a are sewed together, as indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and the lower edge a of the outer layer or ply and the central lower edge a of the back ply B are likewise sewed together with the upper edge of the band B when used in connection with a band-shirt, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, or the upper edge of the body portion A, as in Fig. 2, between the lower edges of the two plys, as shown. The outer corners of the back ply B are removed, as shown at D D forming oblong" recesses therein, as shown in Figs. 3, 6, and

10, and the portions removed are replaced by small inserts E E the inserts being somewhat larger than the portions cut out, so that their edges 1) b underlap the edges 11 of the recesses, as shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The lower edges 19 of the inserts D D form the continuations of the edges a of the back ply, and the upper edge of the band B or the shirt A, as the case may be, will be sewed between these lower edges b and the lower edge a of the front ply B, as shown. Before the back ply B is sewed fast, the edges 12 of the recesses are hemmed, as shown in Fig. 3, and at the right side of Figs. 6 and 10, so as not to present a raveled edge. By this simple means small pockets are formed in the outer corners of the collars to receive stifiening-plates F F, as shown, to prevent the corners of the collars rolling up or otherwise getting out of shape.

By cutting out the portions from the back ply B and replacing the cut-out portions by the inserts, I am enabled to form .the pockets without adding to the thickness of the collars at the corners, which in flannel shirts especially is an objectionable feature.

The stiffening-pieces F F may be made of any suitable material, but paper has been found to answer the purpose in a satisfactory manner. After the stiifening-pieces are illserted and the collar folded down, the stiffening-pieces are held in place by the fold of the collar, and need no other fastening.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is The collar herein described consisting of an inner and an outer ply stitched to each other on the outer edge and each end and at the lower edge in the central portion of the collar, the inner ply being cut away at each end forming recesses D D the lower edge of the inner ply being left open or unstitched, and the inner face of the outer ply being lined with facing pieces E E, said facing pieces projecting within the body of the collar and stitched at the lower and end edges thereof to the outer ply, whereby a pocket is formed for the reception of a stiffening piece at each end of the collar.

I11 testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL A. FOREST. In presence of- O. N. WoonwARn,

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